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Sports Central
October 4, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
Baseball at its Best Down to the Wire The stage is set for a MLB playoffs season that lends itself to great theater, with no sure winner and possibly surprising upsets. You can't ask for any more from this game of baseball.   |
Sports Central
October 13, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
Finally Triumphant, Are Astros the Sleeper Pick? After eight prior attempts and never advancing beyond the National League Division Series, the Houston Astros have finally pierced the veil. |
Sports Central
October 17, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Astros on Way to First Pennant? The Houston Astros are a curious combination of talent and will. They win with intangibles unique to their group of players and management, which does not show up in the box score. |
Sports Central
June 23, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Roger(s) Hold 'Em in Texas Two not fully unexpected performances, but remarkable for their ages and compiled years in the majors, are those of pitchers Kenny Rogers, playing for the Texas Rangers, and Roger Clemens, ace of the Houston Astros pitching staff. |
Sports Central
July 14, 2005
Derek Daggett |
MLB Second-Half Predictions Armed with 80+ games of knowledge, here is how the remainder of the 2005 Major League Baseball season should break down, division by glorious division. |
Sports Central
August 1, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Astros' Play is Deja Vu All Over Again A surprise since the All-Star Break is the torrid streak of the Houston Astros, with a 22-7 record in July, the best home record in the majors and tops in winning percentage through July 30th. |
Sports Central
October 22, 2005
Piet Van Leer |
World Series: Who Has the Edge? Historical differences aside, the Chicago White Sox and the Houston Astros will seem familiar to one another based on their similar styles of play. So with two teams that practically mirror each other, who holds the edge? |
Sports Central
November 10, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
Clemens' Love of the Game Still Rewards Him Love him or hate him, Roger Clemens causes fans to react, and not so much because he played for different teams, but because he has remained for so long as an important figure in the game, and has never backed down or let his teammates down. |
Sports Central
August 8, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Easy as 1, 2, 3 There may be a number of teams who run the gamut for a playoff birth, but pitching wins in the playoffs, and no starting pitching staff is as ominous as the Astros trio. Second in line would be the dominant duo from St. Louis. |
Sports Central
January 24, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: The Barenaked Astros Houston has made the questionable decision to spend on Rogers Clemens instead of Jeff Kent, Carlos Beltran, or possibly other foreign talent. |
Sports Central
February 17, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Astros Will Try a New Look As the Houston Astros land in Osceola Stadium in Kissimmee, FL this week, the question this spring training is not the number of games they will win in 2005, but rather who will they have left on their roster in doing so? |
Sports Central
January 24, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Clemens' Return a Boon For MLB Roger Clemens' return to the pitching mound will be well worth it for not only Houston fans, but for the over all health of Major League Baseball. |
Sports Illustrated
August 13, 2002
Jeff Pearlman |
Hello, Houston Led by a makeshift rotation, the Astros quickly climbed into NL Central contention. |
Sports Central
September 18, 2003
Marco Santana |
End of Season Baseball Musings A few random musings as the baseball season nears its end. |
Sports Central
February 16, 2006
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Major League Baseball 2006 Preview NL East: 1. New York Mets... 2. Atlanta Braves... NL Central: 1. St. Louis Cardinals... 2. Milwaukee Brewers... |
Sports Central
October 24, 2005
Bob Ekstrom |
Baseball Folklore, Meet Bradley Lidge Bradley Lidge, star closer of the Houston Astros is now the leader of the Postseason Choke: True grit ultimately advanced the Astros into their first World Series, where they promptly lost the opener to the Chicago White Sox on Saturday night. |
Sports Illustrated
September 5, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Batteries charged Astros' young guns thrive with help of veteran backstops... |
Sports Central
January 2, 2008
Rich Lyons |
Grading the MLB Offseason Moves Here is a list of the most notable MLB trades, along with a grade for the team(s) involved. |
Sports Central
January 24, 2007
Mike Round |
MLB Pitchers Exploit Tight Market A look at the value of MLB pitchers. |
Salon.com
October 9, 2001
King Kaufman |
Playoff predictions Our writer bravely looks at the baseball games ahead and calls 'em as he sees 'em (while crossing his fingers)... |
Sports Central
September 15, 2008
Jonathan Lowe |
Rain, Rain, Why'd You Come? Did Major League Baseball make the correct decision in moving the Houston-Chicago series to Milwaukee's Miller Park? |
Sports Central
September 7, 2005
Matt Thomas |
Stretch Run is Full of Hidden Gems As the sun sets on the 2005 Major League Baseball season, a little retrospection is appropriate. |
Sports Central
June 13, 2007
Bob Ekstrom |
Can Pitching Really Win the AL Pennant? If the old baseball adage holds, these two teams should be locking horns in the ALCS come October, right? Maybe not. |
Sports Central
October 6, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Season-Ending Races Live Up to Hype Some say that the same teams in 2005 that succeeded to reach the postseason in Major League Baseball in 2004 are old-hat. But this year, unlike past seasons, the road to success was nothing but routine for several of these perennial winners. |
Sports Central
February 27, 2006
Isaac Miller |
2006 MLB Preview: American League It was an interesting offseason in the American League. Yet some burning questions still remain. |
Sports Illustrated
August 1, 2001
Tom Verducci |
What's the motivation? Intent is key when unwritten rules are broken. The barking Davey Lopes did at Rickey Henderson recently touched off yet another discussion about the unwritten rules of baseball... |
Sports Central
September 27, 2005
Kevin Connelly |
And the Award Goes to... Here are the winners of the 2005 NL awards for MVP and Cy Young with less than two weeks remaining in the regular season. |
Sports Illustrated
April 16, 2003
Albert Chen |
Royal Flush After losing 100 games in 2002, how did Kansas City start 9-0? |
Sports Central
March 6, 2006
Isaac Miller |
2006 MLB Preview: National League Look for an exciting A's/Cards World Series. St. Louis will be the best team in baseball for the third straight year, and LaRussa's club will finally have a ring to show for it. |
Sports Central
May 10, 2007
Diane M. Grassi |
Does Clemens' Contract Disrespect Baseball? There are a number of questions beneath the veneer that are far bigger than one Roger Clemens. |
Sports Central
June 8, 2005
Matt Thomas |
Breaking Down the MLB Trade Deadline As the summer heats up in Major League Baseball, serious trade talks annually begin to percolate. |
Sports Central
December 26, 2005
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Yanks Look Like AL East Champs It's impossible to tell what the regular starting lineup for the Yankees is going to be come March, but you can be confident that it will look like an all-star team. |
Sports Illustrated
March 12, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Little doubt The Boston Red Sox realized their new manager was the perfect fit... |
Sports Central
June 21, 2010
Joshua Duffy |
Lessons From Baseball's First Half At nearly the half-way point of the Major League Baseball season, we have a pretty good idea now of who is going to be what. |
Sports Central
June 18, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Cardinal Sinners? Royal Stuffers? If the St. Louis Cardinals' front office isn't facing an investigation into whether they hacked into the Houston Astros' internal data networks, Kansas City fans are gleefully stuffing online all-star ballot boxes in favor of the Royals. |
Sports Central
May 1, 2013
Andrew Jones |
April's Early Warning Signs All in all, the 2013 season looks to be an interesting one. Every division seems to have three or four potential contenders. But most likely May will weed out the weaklings and early overachievers. |
Sports Central
July 6, 2004
William Geoghegan |
Closing Time They are charged with a simple task -- get three outs in the ninth inning. They are the closers, and they get a heck of a lot of attention. |
Sports Illustrated
June 13, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Interleague played-out Baseball's experiment may have run its course... |
Fast Company
November 2003
Keith H. Hammonds |
Beane's Magic Back in May, in "How to Play Beane Ball," we wrote glowingly of general manager Billy Beane and his Oakland A's baseball team which, we predicted, "almost certainly will win a lot more games than it will lose this season." We're exhaling now: At press time, the A's were 90-60. |
Sports Central
April 22, 2004
Mike Round |
Billy Beane: Messiah or Phony? Billy Beane had taken over a team in disarray, with only slightly more fans than the Expos, and transformed them into a perennial contender in the tough AL West. |
Sports Central
September 27, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
Trouble Brewing in the Bronx There is no secret that pitching is what wins in the postseason. And the New York Yankees have some gaping holes that area. |
Sports Illustrated
August 15, 2002 |
Prior commitment Cubs vow not to overwork their phenom pitcher |
Sports Central
December 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
Sports Illustrated
May 16, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Return of the Mac? Don't count on it -- McGwire is done with baseball... |
Sports Central
August 27, 2009
Matt Thomas |
Also-Rans Key During MLB Stretch Run Because baseball must go on, even in those cities where the race has been over since mid-May, what follows is a breakdown of the five most relevant irrelevant teams in Major League Baseball for the balance of the 2009 season. |
Sports Illustrated
January 16, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
One-Shot Deal In Johnny Damon, the A's got what they needed -- for a year, at least... |
Sports Central
July 21, 2005
Daniel Collins |
The NL East Wildcard Scorecard Although all of the teams in baseball's National League East are .500 or better, with so many games left against each other, none of them will be able to win the Playoff wildcard. |
Sports Central
May 2, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB's Upstarts and Stalwarts What makes the baseball season so special is that no individual player's achievement or any team's success is greater than the entirety of the game. |
Sports Central
March 30, 2005
Adam Russell |
Top 10 Questions For Opening Day Despite the flurry of activity surrounding Major League Baseball's drug policy, the offseason had a number of events that raised an even larger number of questions heading into the first games. |
Sports Central
June 27, 2011
Matt Thomas |
MLB Trade Deadline: The Sellers The buyers and sellers in MLB have identified themselves and there should be a very active run up to the July 31st trade deadline. Sit back and enjoy what should amount to one of the more active trade seasons in several years! |
